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  Wayne Byrne, widely esteemed advocate of many causes, dies at 84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Byrne, who lived on Lake Champlain, both at his home on Cumberland Avenue and later at Lake Forest Adult Community, was an active member of the Lake Champlain Committee for 33 years and was a past board member for the organization.
Byrne was also a member of the Association of College Trustees and a longtime member of the Paul Smith’s College Board of Directors and head of the college’s Department of Lands and Forests.
Byrne was born in Bedford, Va., Nov. 19, 1917, the son of Professor and Mrs.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2002/06_2002/060820021.htm   (1170 words)

  
 Boston's Balladeer - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Magazine - News
Byrne's US debut was at Carnegie Hall in New York, where he played a St. Patrick's Day concert as part of a touring group called the Blarney Folk.
Byrne was performing from a stool until last month, a concession to the physical demands of the job, but has since kicked it aside.
Byrne, for one, thinks that the vitality of Irish music will always have a place on the Boston social landscape, and he intends to continue performing his up-tempo, singalong-friendly version as long as his health allows.
www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/06/19/bostons_balladeer   (1012 words)

  
 CD Baby: EUGENE BYRNE: Away from Home
Born in Dublin, Ireland Eugene Byrne's performance is music and laughs, life and carousing, enthusiasm and careful consideration.
Eugene is at his best in front of a live audience, and the key to his success is the pleasant and warm feeling he can generate in an audience.A major focus for Eugene is customizing tours to Ireland.
Eugene brings Ireland's history and culture to life by sharing his knowledge with those that travel with him.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/ebyrne   (435 words)

  
 SiNews » Comics
Eugene and I went to the Architecture Centre on Wednesday, where the 200 Ideas exhibition is being held.
Written by Eugene Byrne and illustrated by me, it’s the story of Britain’s greatest engineer, his works and the times he lived in.
Eugene brought me a copy fresh from the printers and it’s a lovely thick volume, nicely reproduced and with all the pages in the right order.
www.simongurr.com /?cat=3   (502 words)

  
 Dover Community News: Eugene Byrne concert ceili slated
SICA is pleased to present its annual big event — a concert by Eugene Byrne along with a potluck supper and ceili.
Eugene Byrne is at his best in front of a live audience, and the key to his success is the pleasant and warm feeling he can generate in an audience.
According to the Boston Phoenix, “Eugene Byrne remembers those days, when ballad singers like himself began to supplant the Irish dance bands that, before and after World War II, made Dudley Square in Roxbury, MA the undisputed mecca for Irish music in Boston.
www.seacoastonline.com /2002news/dover/d4_5ent.htm   (368 words)

  
 Artsandentertainment: Through Irish eyes
Two years later, Byrne is in the role of Cornelius "Con" Melody in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of A Touch of the Poet, playing at Studio 54.
It is that depth of character and plot that drew Byrne back to the New York stage for the second time.
But Byrne believes that is simply a matter of the play having not been performed as often as works such as Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh and A Moon for the Misbegotten.
www.sptimes.com /2005/12/26/news_pf/Artsandentertainment/Through_Irish_eyes.shtml   (968 words)

  
 CJAD 800 : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
IL Divo is a new vocal concept featuring 4 internationally renowned young male singers who apply operatic technique and virtuosity to the interpretation of romantic songs from the popular repertoire, with full orchestral accompaniment.
Two years later, Byrne is in the role of Cornelius (Con) Melody in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of A Touch of the Poet, currently playing at Studio 54.
Byrne's Broadway debut came in 2000 when he starred opposite Cherry Jones in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
www3.cjad.com /content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/CanadianPress/EntertainmentNews/e122311A.htm   (1073 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Things Unborn
UK author Eugene Byrne has postulated a world in which an atomic war in 1962 has caused the decline in population and civilization in much of the Western World.
Byrne's remaining characters are made up of both retreads, as the re-born are called, and natives.
Byrne's plot is tight and his characters are realistic, permitting the reader to overlook the few flaws in the society he has set up.
www.sfsite.com /07b/tu108.htm   (765 words)

  
 Review | Things Unborn by Eugene Byrne
Despite the somewhat silly premise (which has the obvious advantage of allowing Byrne to use whichever historical characters he fancies and to ignore those he doesn't), the novel is not a farce.
Byrne deftly makes everything clear in context, using many words and expressions that would, out of context, seem like meaningless gibberish.
One of the great pleasures of reading Eugene Byrne's work is that he doesn't deal in the ordinary.
www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/thingsunborn.html   (632 words)

  
 The chess games of Robert Eugene Byrne
Robert Eugene Byrne was born in New York on April 20, 1928.
Both Byrne boys are mentioned in a book "My Seven Chess Prodigies" about a chess trainer, Jack Collins, who knew seven famous players as teens, including the Bs, fischer, lombardy,and I think, Anthony saidy.He said Donald Byrne was a very nervous sort, who became a chain smoker very early in life.
Through 1963 the ratings for Robert and Donald Byrne are usually quite close to each other--sometimes one is higher, sometimes the other, and they appear to average out to about the same level.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=15496   (1149 words)

  
 Smedley
Smedley was educated in the fearsome Dr Morgan's Grammar School for Boys, where he and his comrades were regularly flogged to within an inch of their lives by sadistic prefects, forced to play rugby in a swamp against boys twice their age and drilled in the rigid disciplines of mathematics.
In 1916, Brian and his friends Eugene Byrne, Kim Newman and Alex Dunn escaped briefly from school and enlisted in a line regiment so they could enjoy the more relaxed, hygeinic and healthy atmosphere of the Western Front.
Tragically, Eugene, Kim and Alex were mown down by machine-gun fire when the infantry was ordered over the top in at Ypres, and young Brian's bottom was riddled with shrapnel as he tried to drag their corpses back for a proper burial.
www.digifutures.org /schools/Smedley.htm   (601 words)

  
 Eugene Byrne Tours to Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Eugene specializes in customized tours to his native Ireland and provides a unique experience for his groups.
When you travel to Ireland with Eugene Byrne, you immediately feel welcome and at home.As one recent traveler put it "traveling with Eugene I never felt the desire to go home, I felt as if I had come home."
All travel arrangements are made through SMI Tours Ireland, a new company (of which Eugene is part owner and on the board of directors) that was formed in September of 2001 by a number of experienced travel veterans who wanted to bring back old-fashioned service that we all seem to be missing these days.
www.eugenebyrne.com /tours.html   (261 words)

  
 Eugene Byrne:  Things Unborn
The historical figures Byrne has decided to use, notably Scipio Africanus (a former slave, not the Roman general, 1702-20) and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), are not particularly well-known figures.
Byrne portrays characters from widely differing periods and beliefs managing to fit into the general mold of society too easily.
Byrne invites the reader to suspend disbelief for the length of the novel and manages to provide an interesting story which rewards that suspension and makes the reader willing to suspend disbelief for future novels and stories.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/unborn.html   (538 words)

  
 Review | Thigmoo
Katharine Beckford, a compassionate intellectual, and Sir John Westgate, a staunch conservative, have founded the Museum of the Mind, an archive of some two hundred fictional characters from various periods of history created especially for the University of Wessex's History Department.
Eugene Byrne aims his trenchant wit at all his characters, regardless of their politics.
For example, the world's last living socialist, Derek Pilbeam (a socially inept nerd who lives in a grimy mobile home with his titanic wife Tatiana who is too fat and inert to successfully negotiate the path from television set to toilet), doesn't exactly cut a heroic figure.
www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/thigmoo.html   (549 words)

  
 Easy Print from BloodHorse.com
Serengeti Stable's Eugene's Third Son, who made a dazzling return to competition on Thursday at Churchill Downs, may find himself in California by the end of the year.
Byrne nominated Eugene's Third Son to the Malibu, the first race in Santa Anita's Strub Series, when he was in California last week to run stablemate Ethan Man in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr.
The win improved the career record of Eugene's Third Son to 3-3-0 in six races with earnings of $283,445.
www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory_plain.asp?id=18949   (259 words)

  
 things unborn- book review for zone-sf.com
Eugene Byrne is perhaps best known for his alternative histories (often written with Kim Newman).
The time of the story, however, is 2008 and the central premise is that one effect of the massive radiation exposure of the planet's surface is the re-appearance - where they died but in full health - of those who passed on before their 'allotted span'.
Byrne illustrates his city skilfully, combining locations familiar to every tourist with those more likely to be recognised by a student of history.
www.zone-sf.com /thingsunborn.html   (476 words)

  
 Wrestle a giant
Then he picked it back up and began to list in the back of the book the themes he thought O’Neill was dealing with: love, exile, loss, memory, pride, marriage, shame, addiction, sin.
Byrne’s Broadway debut came in 2000 when he starred opposite Cherry Jones in "A Moon for the Misbegotten." He received a Tony nomination for his work and realized for the first time the scope of O’Neill’s writing, which he only truly began to appreciate after trying to interpret it.
And Byrne adds, "The big challenge is to make people say, ‘God, even when he was doing something like this, was there any braver, more original writer in 20th-century drama than Eugene O’Neill?’ "
www.showmenews.com /2006/Jan/20060108Ovat006.asp   (1146 words)

  
 Irish Abroad - Daily Irish News
For the Byrne family all the important occasions brought them to a spot under the Hellgate Bridge in Astoria, Queens for a snapshot.
It was the middle of the Depression and Eugene Byrne, an electrician, was getting only four days of work a month from the WPA.
However, fate was not kind for the couple, and Evelyn Byrne died in 1945 at the age of 43.
www.irishabroad.com /irishworld/irishamericamag/octnov05/departments/first-communion-day-octnov05.asp   (402 words)

  
 Scleroderma Foundation New England Chapter - Irish Spring Fling 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The entertainment provided by The McTeggarts, Tommy Byrne and George Landers, Denis O’Gorman, John Corcoran and Co., Brian Corcoran and Ben Parisi, Eugene Byrne, and Julie Dougherty can only be described as delightful.
At the very end, Kathy Byrne expressed her thanks to all present and particularly to her family members who planned the event, especially her daughter, Roxanne, and family friend, Sarah Julien, who she stated did the "lion's share of the work."
SFNE would like to thank Kathy Byrne and her family, Sarah Julien, the entertainers, the attendees and all who contributed to this really wonderful event which raised not only $11,400 for scleroderma, but enhanced awareness of the disease by several notches as well!
www.scleroderma.org /chapter/newengland/news_springfling03.htm   (441 words)

  
 Robert Eugene Byrne vs Robert James Fischer (1963) "To Crush the Opponent's Mind"
Byrne would have been overjoyed had Fischer played 18....
: The D Byrne game against Fischer is a tad bit overrated - don't get me wrong, it is certainly a great great game, but "the game of the century" I think is a bit of an exaggeration.
The other interesting thing is that most of the players thought Byrne had WON this game...
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1008419   (1085 words)

  
 The Rose Ann O'Byrne Family
Rose Ann O'Byrne was born in Lawler, Iowa on January 24, 1866 to parents Peter O'Byrne and Mary Mullen.
Eugene was born in Lodi, Wisconsin on May 31, 1864 where he spent his life farming in Lawler.
Rose spent her life as a housewife and together with Eugene, raised eight children: two boys named William Byron and Eugene Vincent, and six girls named Marie Genevieve, Madonna Bernadette, Florence Ann, Pearl Gertrude, Marguerite Rose, and Leona Josephene.
www.tech-sol.net /geneology/RoseAObyrne.htm   (225 words)

  
 Back in the Ussa - PowerBookSearch!
In the zany scenario of this alternative history of the 20th century, Russia didn't have a revolution, but the United States did, sparked by Teddy Roosevelt's death in a gun battle between the Rough Riders and striking meatpackers in 1912 Chicago.
One of the two superpowers which has dominated the 20th century is on the verge of being torn apart.
When Eugene Debs led the Revolution, few expected it to lead to the iron-fisted regime of Chairman Al "Scarface" Capone, a dictatorship that would last into the 1950s.
www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0929480848.html   (343 words)

  
 SFBookcase.com - Author Eugene Byrne's Biography,Bibliography,Novels,Short Stories,Related Websites - Reference of ...
Eugene Byrne has had stories published in INTERZONE and other magazines and anthologies.
His debut novel has all the panache, wit and invention of the best science fiction and characters you’ll love.
Eugene Byrne lives with his wife and two young children.
www.sfbookcase.com /author.asp?authorid=109   (76 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Back in the USSA: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The characters are put in new situations but react exactly as they would have in real life.
You heard me correct, Eugene Debs lead a revolution and established a socialist republic during WW1.
Byrne and Newman paint a vivid picture of an America that could have been.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0929480848   (813 words)

  
 Peace And Love Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The other members at various floating levels were Eugene Byrne, Stefan Jaworzyn, Phil Nutman and Neil Gaiman" (KN).
The inspiration for the name came after Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stefan Jaworzyn, and Eugene Byrne, crashing at Kim Newman's place in sleeping bags, started chatting after listening to Kim's landlord's party which was playing "old hippy music" (NG).
By Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, and Eugene Byrne.
members.aol.com /ngaimanvb/neil/palc.html   (270 words)

  
 Thingunb.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Following the success of his critically acclaimed satire ThiGMOO Byrne has crafted an intriguing alternate world thriller in which the dead are returned to life following the Atom War of 1962.
In Britain these "retreads" fought a civil war — the Coalition army led by Lawrence of Arabia defeating the Nationalists, who wanted to put the Duke of Monmouth on the throne.
The plot is a bit thin in places, but this is no mere beachreader — the world draws the reader in almost effortlessly and, once in, you'll want to stay.
www.concatenation.org /frev/thingunb.html   (173 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Things Unborn: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Eugene Byrne's second SF novel Things Unborn is as eccentric and offbeat as his first, ThiGMOO--but in different ways.
Here it's 2008, on a timeline where Britain is still recovering from 1962's world nuclear war and subsequent "Feudal Wars", both helped and hindered by crowds of the returned dead.
I like Byrne's crazy vision and shall have to go a find a copy of 'Thigmoo' to read.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743409116/tangledweb01   (1211 words)

  
 JS Online:Byrne finds 'Touch' of genius in little-known O'Neill work
Then he picked it back up and began to list the themes he thought O'Neill was dealing with: love, exile, loss, memory, pride, marriage, shame, addiction, sin.
Two years later, Byrne is in the role of Cornelius "Con" Melody in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of "A Touch of the Poet" at Studio 54.
His face looks drawn, and he acknowledges being physically and emotionally "wiped out" by the rehearsals and performances.
www.jsonline.com /379975   (900 words)

  
 Customer Comments
This was my first trip to Ireland alone without my husband, who died within a year after our trip in 2002, so it was especially emotional for me. Eugene and Peter found a beautiful beach in Galway and the whole bus full of people went on the beach while I scattered his ashes.
Eugene is well read, humorous, at ease and best of all a great singer/entertainer.”
Eugene, Tommy and the boys went out of their way to make sure everyone had a good time.
www.smireland.com /Testimonials.htm   (3123 words)

  
 North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
The first time Gabriel Byrne read Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet," he threw it at the wall.
When the audience first sees Melody, his hands are shaking because he needs a drink.
Director Doug Hughes calls Melody "one of the fiendishly difficult parts that I can imagine," and he believes Byrne fits it perfectly.
www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY4NDQwODAmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1   (930 words)

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